Identity is fully compatible with the OWIN Authorization model, and when used in this manner, represents a very useful, ready-to go concrete implementation. But we can perhaps better understand the st...

Long gone are the days when networks could be relied upon to provide security for your organization, old theories about applications and databases, and servers being behind the firewall and therefore ...

A common question Ive been getting is how to use tokens with ASP.NET, specifically JSON Web Tokens (JWT) with ASP.NET WebAPI where the OAuth server and the resource server are the same. In other words...

The reality is that securing applications is not as much fun as we would like it to be. Nobody comes and says "Wow! Thumbs up for securing my personal data!". However, security is undoubtedly import...

Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along wit...

Honesty refers to a facet of moral character and connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, and straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along wit...

By Alex Komyagin at MongoDB with the help of Felderi Santiago at Centrify and Robertson Pimentel at CentrifyOverviewCentrify provides unified identity management solutions that result in single sign-o...

Today we released a major set of updates to Microsoft Azure. Todays updates include: Marketplace: Announcing Azure Marketplace and partnerships with key technology partners Networking: Network Secur...

A lot of the routine jobs demanded of a DBA can be automated, but a tougher prospect is to automate these jobs in a way that the requestor rather than the DBA can actually set of the job running them...

Discuss on Hacker NewsWe consistently hear that getting started with MongoDB is easy, but scaling to large configurations that include replication and sharding can be challenging. With MMS, it is now ...

By Adam Comerford, Senior Solutions EngineerIn Part I we discussed important considerations when picking a shard key. In this post we will go through some recommendations when running a sharded cluste...

With the introduction of OWIN-based security and Identity management in ASP.NET 4.5, the configuration of authentication and authorization have changed a bit for web forms developers. In this article,...

Acunetix WVS audits your website security by running a host of tests. It then provides a concise report of issues it found. Not only does it do this, but it also suggests changes you need to make to f...

Ive just tried to pick up my blogging again and tried to get in a million different ways but ultimately kept seeing the error message The username or password is incorrect. Please try again. Heres how...

Ive just tried to pick up my blogging again and tried to get in a million different ways but ultimately kept seeing the error message The username or password is incorrect. Please try again. Heres how...

I am pleased to announce that my 'Glav.CacheAdapter' package has recently been updated to 3.2 (we skipped 3.1 for a few reasons).
Note: For those not familiar with what this package does, you can loo...

MongoLab runs all of its hosted MongoDB deployments with authorization enabled, which means that username / password authentication is required before your database can be accessed. For lower-level ne...

Its OK to not know something. It really is, if youre willing to admit it, and have a reasonably accurate idea about your own level of competence. Unfortunately, thanks to the Dunning-Kruger effect, we...

By Alex Komyagin, Technical Services Engineer at MongoDBSetting up Kerberos authentication and SSL encryption in a MongoDB Java application is not as simple as other languages. In this post, Im going ...

Although the Cloud gives us the freedom of using, and paying for, computing resources only when we need them, the public cloud isn't a universal panacea. Private clouds can harness all that cloud te...

Issues concerning Microsoft's July security update, released last week, have led to crashes for many users. One is connected to the InstallShield application and another is a compatibility issue with ...